Concord Board of Health Issues Largest-Ever On-Site Septic Permit, Hears Inspector Departure

CONCORD — March 18, 2026 — Concord Board of Health issues its largest-ever on-site septic permit and absorbs an inspector departure. Public Health Director Melanie Dineen reported that the board issued a permit for a 9,990-gallon-per-day septic system at Forest Ridge Road — the maximum allowable without state DEP review and the largest on-site wastewater permit the town expects to issue — as a sequencing step for a housing project on the former Thoreau Club site. Inspector Mike Funaiole gave notice effective March 19, after three and a half years, to take an assistant director post in Sudbury; Dineen responded by outsourcing camp and food inspections to Maureen Lee of MOJIN. Public Health Nurse Katie Stanislawzyk reported 14 flu and 15 COVID cases in February, announced public sunscreen dispensers coming to four town locations this summer, and previewed an April 16 mental health ice cream social tied to the Yellow Tulip Project, with a board goal of reaching 180 Concord residents — 1 percent of the population — through health communications by June 2026.